Pro-Tip: If your recording was hand-held, use youtube’s video editor to “Stabilize” your video first, or else it will be very uncomfortable to watch it sped up. Then download it after the changes have been applied. You can see the “stabilize” button in the image for “Simple Mode” above.

3. Start OpenShot.

Drag-and-drop your video into editor (near “Thumb” at the top).

Then drag it to the timeline (here “track 2” near the bottom).

Right-click > “Properties” > Choose a speed (here “5x”).

Click “Apply”.

Click “Advanced” if you want a speed that isn’t listed.

4. Hit the green “play” button to see if the speed looks okay.

5. File > Export Video > Choose the “youtube” profile.

6. Upload to youtube.

7. Profit!

Pro-tip: If you only want to speed up part of your video, first set everything to normal speed, break the clip up into chunks with the scissors tools, and then change the clip properties of individual clips to speed up whichever ones you want.

OpenShot seems to do weird things if you first speed up the video, cut it up, and try to return sections to “normal” speed.

Actually, even the former method seems to clip off ends of the video, so double-check it’s all there before you export.